Comments | siglinde99: Poverty Eating

siglinde99

Poverty Eating

Apr 13, 2015 18:29

I'm not tracking as well as I should, but I know I am staying close to (or under) my $5 a day goal. It's relatively easy since I bought huge cuts of meat for Easter and then made soups and stews with leftovers (and still had a huge container of sliced meat). If I was really living on an Ontario Disability Allowance, or welfare, that would not be an ( Read more... )

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litlebanana April 14 2015, 00:14:43 UTC

Yeah, I feel like I could probably eat for five dollars a day for a week without a problem, but if I kept it up for a year, that would be really hard. You can do anything for a week.

vesta_venus April 14 2015, 05:01:55 UTC

She does have those 7 limes. So, she's not getting scurvy. :)

one_raido April 15 2015, 01:17:19 UTC

Did you ever watch Morgan Spurlock's 30 days? They lived on a welfare budget for 30 days and ran into health issues when his finace' was ill.

Really good series.

siglinde99 April 29 2015, 17:32:41 UTC

I haven't seen it, but I just did a quick search and it looks like I missed out on a really interesting show. I have been watching the current US debate about a $15 minimum wage with great interest. That would just about triple what he was living on.

one_raido April 29 2015, 17:39:05 UTC

The series stemmed from a documentary he did Supersize me where he ate McDonald's for 30 days. Really good. He has something now called Inside Man, but I haven't seen any of those.

siglinde99 April 29 2015, 17:57:50 UTC

I remember all the buzz about Supersize Me. The kids watched it as school as part of their phys ed/health classes too.